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re: Why is calculus so difficult?
Posted on 10/7/20 at 11:41 pm to Fat and Happy
Posted on 10/7/20 at 11:41 pm to Fat and Happy
I always found Calculus pretty easy but hated Statistic shite. I was an engineering major so math was pretty easy to me for some reason.
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Posted on 10/8/20 at 12:58 am to Ingeniero
quote:yeah i had to retake calc 2. Like someone said earlier, I also had a foreign teacher who didnt explain things. He would just work problems and go to fast and i couldnt understand him and said frick it and dropped it for that semester after a rough start. Physics was easier for me personally,
Calc 1 and 3 were easy. Calc 2 can suck a moose cock
Posted on 10/8/20 at 12:59 am to subMOA
quote:Come on man.
For all the cats saying its not hard and you’re dumb- they are full of SHITE!
I am a successful business owner, and worked at some pretty decent executive levels in the companies I worked for before I owned my own.
When I was a practicing engineer- I was pretty damn good, and many people said I might be the best pure structural guy they worked with.
Calculus kicked my arse. Period.
My wife is a PhD Chem E and might be the smartest person I have ever met- she is the ONLY person I have ever met that said calculus was fun. Consider that for a sec.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 3:43 am to Armytiger87
I don’t know if LSU still has the graphing calculator section course but if they do, take that one.
This post was edited on 10/8/20 at 3:46 am
Posted on 10/8/20 at 6:11 am to Armytiger87
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Is it the concepts themselves? Are limits, derivatives and integrals inherently challenging? Is it difficult because of gaps in precursor knowledge like exponents and logarithms?
It isn't, it gives people trouble in Calc 1 because the concept of a variable is explained terribly early on. Weak foundations in algebra lead to unnecessary confusion in the building blocks.
Calc 2, series expansions are very counter intuitive and hard to really understand what is going on the first time, at least for me, but once you revisit them in higher math it all sort of clicks.
Calc 3 and Differential Equations are both pretty easy. Don't really remember what else was thrown in my coursework - Fourier Series and BVP weren't too hard, but definitely more challenging than algebra based subjects (as subject's heavily involved in series). Probability theory was tricky I felt.
Complex Analysis and then the final Math Course I took was Asymptotic Expansions and Perturbation Techniques - both were challenging.
Whish I had taken more linear algebra, doing some supplemental study at home now in areas of math and physics I wish I had hit on in college.
This post was edited on 10/8/20 at 6:16 am
Posted on 10/8/20 at 6:14 am to Armytiger87
The professor makes all the difference. Best calc teacher i ever had was a grad student studying to be a high school teacher.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 6:31 am to Armytiger87
Calculus is 90% Algebra and Trig. It assumes that you are extremely proficient in both. I tutored a lot of kids in 1550, and found that most of them struggled with Calculus because they didn’t have a firm grasp of Algebra and Trig.
Of course, that was back in the late 80s and early 90s. I don’t remember a damn thing about calculus now and when I look at it now it might as well be Greek.
Of course, that was back in the late 80s and early 90s. I don’t remember a damn thing about calculus now and when I look at it now it might as well be Greek.
This post was edited on 10/8/20 at 7:04 am
Posted on 10/8/20 at 6:38 am to MMauler
quote:
I tutored a lot of kids in 1550,
calculus wasn't invented for another 100 years!
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:02 am to Sneaky__Sally
quote:
calculus wasn't invented for another 100 years!
It's Calc I (Engineering Calculus) at LSU, you ignorant f*cking Gump.
If you want to discuss Alabama calculus, go to the Retard/Gump board. I’m sure they have plenty of Crayolas over there for you to explain calculus to your fellow inbread Gumpers.
This post was edited on 10/8/20 at 7:06 am
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:27 am to MMauler
Somebody needs a snickers
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:31 am to Sun God
quote:
Somebody needs a snickers
No, I just like to frick with the Gumps because..............They're Gumps.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:36 am to TechBullDawg
quote:So Gravy Chambers plus the Destroya equals WHAT?
A negative plus a negative equals a positive
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:39 am to jcliv
quote:
The professor makes all the difference. Best calc teacher i ever had was a grad student studying to be a high school teacher.
Bingo. My best calculus teacher was a high school math teacher who taught Calc during the summer. She was the only one who actually *taught* the material instead of just throwing problems up on the board, working them, and moved on to the next one without any explanation.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:53 am to Klingler7
quote:
The professor and the textbook didn’t help
Drop it. Take it with an actual teacher.
Good teacher = A
Posted on 10/8/20 at 7:59 am to Armytiger87
I only had to Calc 1 so my experience was limited but I had to start from the beginning, do all my homework twice, and do every practice problem I could find and I made an 88%. It was all about learning one step at at time and repitition. I was frustrating to learn the long way and then the next day there was short cut and you never had to use the long way again.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:05 am to MMauler
quote:
It's Calc I (Engineering Calculus) at LSU, you ignorant f*cking Gump.
If you want to discuss Alabama calculus, go to the Retard/Gump board. I’m sure they have plenty of Crayolas over there for you to explain calculus to your fellow inbread Gumpers.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:14 am to Ryan3232
quote:
Physics was easier for me personally,
Physics is the subject, math is the language.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:14 am to Armytiger87
The hard part is integration. Derivatives and the other techniques and concepts are manageable if not elegant; and the processes are mostly deterministic processes with a finite or knowable number of iterations required.
Integrals are potentially an open-ended affair; you cannot assume you'll be able to find a formula that works, because it may not or cannot exist.
Integrals are potentially an open-ended affair; you cannot assume you'll be able to find a formula that works, because it may not or cannot exist.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:14 am to Armytiger87
It is not difficult.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:31 am to Armytiger87
X AND shite
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